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Mon 03 Mar 2009Waterford magic without the bluster
The slow-burning subtlety of Katie Kim’s latest album, ‘Twelve’, might never have come into existence if a computer bug hadn’t wiped out 50 songs singer Katie Sullivan had been working on, she tells Jim Carroll
IT’S THE ALBUM that came out of nowhere. The simple cover has a black-and-white photograph of a young woman on it, standing with her back to a mirror. She is, you reckon, the Katie in Katie Kim. The album is called Twelve, even though there are just 10 songs on it. That’s all you have to go on.
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